Café de Flore

Name: Café de Flore
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: November 2, 2012
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 53

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Adopt Films | Release Date: November 2, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: Café de Flore” is a love story about people separated by time and place but connected in profound and mysterious ways. Atmospheric, fantastical, tragic and hopeful, the film chronicles the parallel fates of Jacqueline, a young mother with a disabled son in 1960s Paris, and Antoine, a recently divorced, successful DJ in present day Montreal.Café de Flore” is a love story about people separated by time and place but connected in profound and mysterious ways. Atmospheric, fantastical, tragic and hopeful, the film chronicles the parallel fates of Jacqueline, a young mother with a disabled son in 1960s Paris, and Antoine, a recently divorced, successful DJ in present day Montreal. What binds the two stories together is love - euphoric, obsessive, tragic, youthful, timeless love. (Adopt Films)… Expand

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 120 min

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Rene Rodriguez

Nov 1, 2012

This is a gorgeous, flashy, widescreen epic, like "Boogie Nights" or "Casino," about the most essential things in life: Family, friends and love. But most of all, love. Read full review

Boyd van Hoeij

Oct 13, 2012

Modeled on his 2005 hit "C.R.A.Z.Y.," Vallee's fourth feature is another dense, decades-spanning tale that lets a cherry-picked soundtrack and impressive visual sequences do the heavy lifting. Read full review

Mary Corliss

Oct 13, 2012

The film is generous to all its besotted creatures, and to the audience as well. Viewers who fall in love with Café de Flore will find that it loves them back. Read full review

Eric Hynes

Oct 31, 2012

Postdivorce reconciliation tales - not to mention mother-whore disquisitions - don't get more elaborate than this. Read full review

Brian Miller

Nov 1, 2012

Café de Flore - the title comes from a song heard in both halves - is like a story constructed from the perfume ads in Vanity Fair: the emotional problems of shallow, sexy jet-setters. Read full review

Robert Abele

Nov 18, 2012

It's terribly long and repetitive for so delicately dreamy a diptych, and at times the modern-day story feels like little more than a drawn-out apologia for the wandering male gaze. Read full review

Steve Macfarlane

Oct 31, 2012

It's a pretty tired proposition to complain about movies being manipulative, but Café de Flore sets the bar especially low. Read full review

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DawdlingPoet

Nov 24, 2021

This is a sometimes sad, sometimes touching and certainly thought provoking watch. I'd say its perhaps, at times, more about morals than romance. I thought it was good to see a film tackle the issue of having a child with downs, which is still probably regarded as a bit of a taboo by some. IThis is a sometimes sad, sometimes touching and certainly thought provoking watch. I'd say its perhaps, at times, more about morals than romance. I thought it was good to see a film tackle the issue of having a child with downs, which is still probably regarded as a bit of a taboo by some. I thought some of the dialogue was almost poetic. There are some sex scenes, so its not for especially young viewers but I wouldn't say it seemed entirely tacky or exploitative. In a number of scenes, we see characters underwater, which I suppose could represent rebirth, or otherwise struggling to stay above water in life, letting or not letting things overwhelm you perhaps.

There are two distinct plots present in this film and I found it an intriguing and thoughtful watch that I'd recommend to others.… Expand

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